6.1med

CVE-2016-6908

Characters from languages are such as Arabic, Hebrew are displayed from RTL (Right To Left) order in Opera 37.0.2192.105088 for Android, du…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
6.1
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.7%
percentile 54%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Characters from languages are such as Arabic, Hebrew are displayed from RTL (Right To Left) order in Opera 37.0.2192.105088 for Android, due to mishandling of several unicode characters such as U+FE70, U+0622, U+0623 etc and how they are rendered combined with (first strong character) such as an IP address or alphabet could lead to a spoofed URL. It was noticed that by placing neutral characters such as "/", "?" in filepath causes the URL to be flipped and displayed from Right To Left. However, in order for the URL to be spoofed the URL must begin with an IP address followed by neutral characters as omnibox considers IP address to be combination of punctuation and numbers and since LTR (Left To Right) direction is not properly enforced, this causes the entire URL to be treated and rendered from RTL (Right To Left). However, it doesn't have be an IP address, what matters is that first strong character (generally, alphabetic character) in the URL must be an RTL character.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.71% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.06.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD2.05.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

References

Sources

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